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Carl, I have filed a bug. But when I install Gnome Panel on, say,
12.10 and an underlying change to Ubuntu breaks it, who do I file
the bug report with when no one is maintaining Gnome Panel? I have not said "don't do Unity". I have requested Gnome Panel be maintained for those who adopted Ubuntu because of Gnome Panel (it has become synonymous with Ubuntu obviously), and leave Unity on a separate track for those who want it (on any form factor). Unity 2D should not even be necessary if this is done. Hopefully some distro will take up that Gnome Panel maintenance challenge, because Gnome and Canonical both seem to want to go in the same direction (even while sniping with each other about it in the blogosphere). My constructive criticisms for Unity would boil down to A) make it at least as configurable as Gnome 2.x (which is setting the bar low IMHO) and B) don't make it a replacement for anything when it is still half-baked. I don't understand why anyone would need to ~tell~ Canonical this however. And honestly, if Canonical wants to change the applet / indicator experience and breaks, maybe Canonical should do the porting of existing applets. Nobody asked Canonical to break things to differentiate themselves. On 04/04/2011 08:02 PM, Carl Simpson wrote: This is something that gets said again and again, but… Unity is essentially an option just like AWN is an option, GNOME Panel is an option, Docky is an option, etc. Unity doesn't make any of those go away. If you want to customise the default experience to use a single GNOME Panel, instead of Unity, then do that. |